Las figuras del diablo en el discurso pedagógico

Resumen

The educational discourse can not avoid saying what Good is, since life is a permanent negotiation between desire and norm. But there is always a gap between the project and its results and in this space arises the suspicion of an intervention of Evil. It is a radical evil, the devil as tempter, seducer and rebel. The article analyzes successive figures of the devil throughout the history of pedagogy. In the "traditional" Christian pedagogy, the child, corrupted by nature, is besieged by the devil. The Republic secularizes the devil: Reason must overcome the natural savagery of the child. Next comes the figure of the angelic child of "new" pedagogy – which does not solve the question of the relation between desire and norm. Today, sociology of reproduction gives a social figure to the devil, pedagogical discourse disappears for the benefit of the "free market" and evaluation, but the devil returns as bureaucratic madness, school violence, hate speech against "gender" and socio-political reflection.